Letitia Grenier
Director of the PPIC Water Policy Center and Senior Fellow
Ellen Hanak Chair in Water Policy
Expertise: Landscape ecology, conservation biology
Letitia Grenier is director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, where she is also a senior fellow and holds the Ellen Hanak Chair in Water Policy. She previously directed the Resilient Landscapes Program of the San Francisco Estuary Institute. Throughout her career, she has worked with partners to conserve California’s resources by developing landscape-scale, collaborative visions and solutions. She’s been a leader in science-based management, served as a resource for local and national media, and advised government and agency staff. In 2020, Letitia was the PPIC CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow, for which she completed a report on smarter permitting for restoration of freshwater ecosystems, and she was also an adjunct fellow with the PPIC Water Policy Center. In 2015 and 2019, she served as the science lead for the State of Our Estuary report, and she was also the science lead for the 2015 update to the Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals, heading a team of over 200 environmental scientists, managers, and regulators to develop recommendations for managing San Francisco Bay’s wetlands in the face of rising sea levels. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
